Cat Zingano Quotes

I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.

Every fight, I train for the opponent very hard and smart.

All I can do is make sure Demetrious Johnson does the best he can on fight night and goes out and wins his fights.

You need to prepare for every fight.

The day I step in the cage with Cyborg, I will be 100% prepared.

I stretch for a full hour before a fight because I know I'm going to take a lot of punishment in the ring. That's my secret.

I need eight weeks, train hard, last one week make weight, and go to the war. Because when I go to the war, I have to know I am ready or no.

There are so many variables that go into a fight, you shouldn't waste your time worrying about the other fighters.

No fighter wants to risk getting ring rust.

I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.

I felt good in all my fights. It's all in the preparation. I prepare myself for all of them. And I felt good in all my fights.

People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I've trained that way, I've actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn't come. It's almost because my training has been too hard.

To me, I'm going out there focusing on competing, not worrying about cardio or anything like that.

When you're doing any event on an elite level, you're in tune with your body.

My next fight is always the most important fight, so regardless if I'm fighting for the title or not, I always have to go in there and give everything that I've got.

It's important to have the right strategy. I can't commit to things or fight like I used to. I can't just bang it out. I have to be more intelligent in training and in fighting.

I give a lot of credit to my training partners and to my coaches. Both Greg Jackson and Michael Winklejohn are amazing.

When I prepare for a fight, I never expect it to be easy. I believe that that would create a chance for me to not give my best in the Octagon.

Some of my fights in PRIDE, I felt tired. I would train on the punching bag and feel great but then get tired in my fights.

Anytime you think about ring rust and travel and camps back-to-back, it helps not having any bad injuries and being able to train consistently.

I need to continue to be wise, be efficient and prepared for every game that I play leading up to the Olympics.

I wanna get myself in such good shape that no matter how much I push myself in a fight, I know that the other guy is gonna be a little bit more tired.

I like to train and then step in the cage and do my job. This is the thing that I like to do.

It's MMA. I'm a complete MMA fighter. I expect everything. I'm ready for all of it.

With my style, training is very rigorous. You're toe-to-toe, getting beat on six days a week for five or six weeks leading to a fight. There's no fun, no glamour.